Timothy Albee
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Timothy Albee is the creator of Kaze Ghost Warrior. He needed six months to complete the movie, using two computers. He also published the book.
[edit] Biography
He was born in Michigan and raised in a very small farming community. He bought his first computer when he was 10 years old (Tandy TRS-80 Color Computer). He started college at a state university, and then went to College for Creative Studies (CCS) in Detroit, but left shortly thereafter due to his disappointment with the faculty's inability to teach him what he wanted to learn. He apprenticed to a flute-master in Virginia for a while, learning to make bamboo flutes, then traveled the Renaissance Faire circuit where he worked as a bard, juggler, sleight-of-hand artist, "martial-arts juggler," swordsman and various and sundry other very odd jobs.
Living in California in 1991, he worked as a professional musician focusing mainly on folk and classical harp. He was hired to do sound production for a small music label where he was first exposed to the Video Toaster. After a few years in California, he took a sabbatical, returning to Michigan to finish his degree.
He started working for a company to which Disney Interactive was outsourcing its Animated Storybooks and got back into animation. Then he went back to California to be lead animator on Activision's Apocalypse. He then went on to work on the science fiction television series Babylon 5, and then to Walt Disney Feature Animation to work on the feature film Dinosaur. After WDFA, he formed Exile Films, which was rolled into Studio Mythos when offshore investors took over, leading the studio in a completely contrary direction. Securing the company a gig to fulfill his obligations, he left everything associated with Mythos and drove north. He is currently working on the next episode in the Kaze Ghost Warrior series and was hired on to animate new CGI characters for the third season of the Battlestar Galactica television series.
Also, he has become part of the team designing werewolves for the upcoming film Freeborn.
[edit] Books
- Essential LightWave 3D [8]
- LightWave 3D [8] Character Animation
- CGI Filmmaking, The Creation Of Ghost Warrior
- 1001 LightWave Tips and Tricks and LightWave Getting Started Guide
